Archive for January 5th, 2007
Lopez Obrador gets a TV show, calls president a dummy
7:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics|TV · 3 Comments
5 Jan 2007
As we’ve seen over the past several months, leftist ex-candidate for the Mexican presidency Andrés Manuel López Obrador doesn’t take defeat (or in the opinion of some, a stolen election) well. More evidence that AMLO isn’t even close to giving up and is serious about his “legitimate government” is his new project — television.
According to 20 Minutos, AMLO’s show will be on Mexican television network TV Azteca weekly and will be directed by Mexican filmmaker Luis Mandoki.
“The objective is that it be known everywhere what we are doing and [on the show] we are going to tell it like it is. There we’ll also talk about this usurper government and of the dummy president,” said the head of the leftist party.
Clearly not taking cues from Al Gore, AMLO’s presidential campaign site has recently become his “legitimate government” website, in which he outlines detailed plans — including budgets — for the way publics funds are to be spent over the coming year. As crushed as I was to see AMLO defeated, I just don’t get this, and I mean that quite literally: how can he implement this when he’s not in power? And since I don’t live in Mexico anymore I can’t know what this looks like from there, but from here is seems like he’s going a bit batty. Am I missing something?
Via / 20 Minutos
Jennifer Lopez is People en Español’s Most Influential Hispanic
11:53 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Magazines|Women · 6 Comments
5 Jan 2007
You, our own VivirLatino readers, voted Shakira as the most Influential Latina of 2006. The magazine, People en Español, begs to differ. They have chosen Jenny from the block aka Ms. Jennifer Lopez as their Most Influential Hispanic.
Ser ejemplo para otros es una gran parte de mi trabajo”, dice Jennifer López y agrega que le emociona saber que es capaz de hacer cambiar las opiniones de la gente, o hacer que rían o lloren. En sesión de fotos y entrevista exclusivas para esta edición, la talentosa artista, quien muy pronto tendrá su primer álbum totalmente en español titulado Como ama una mujer, producido por su esposo, Marc Anthony, dice que siente haber madurado como artista y persona, y que recientemente nota que todos sus proyectos se inclinan hacia sus raíces étnicas.
Some of the other Latinos featured in the revista include Shakira, Chilean writer Isabel Allende, Fidel Castro, Carlos Slim Helú, Don Francisco, and Oscar de la Hoya. The issue is on newstands now.
Via / Hispanic PR Wire
Celia Cruz’s executor accused of stealing money
11:40 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Controversia · 1 Comment
5 Jan 2007
The late Celia Cruz left her estate completely and totally to her husband, Pedro Knight. Somewhere along the way, executors were appointed to make sure finances were managed in order to take care of her ill husband. Now, AP reports that a judge will decide whether or not accusations are true that one of the executors, Luis Falcon, has been stealing money intended for Pedro and should therefore be removed from the estate handlings:
Falcon has drained funds from accounts for Knight, made “extravagant expenditures” and failed to account for transfers of more than $1 million from Cruz’s estate, according to a lawsuit filed by co-executor Omer Pardillo, of Cliffside Park.In addition, Falcon is exercising improper influence over Knight, who is 85 and suffering from dementia, the lawsuit claimed. After Cruz died in 2003, Knight moved to California with Falcon, the lawsuit said.
How terribly sad that Celia’s legacy be tainted by this kind of scandal and that Pedro’s later days be filled with ugly fighting over money.
Via / Yahoo! News
Bush Wants to Check Your Mail for You
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · 4 Comments
5 Jan 2007
No, President Bush isn’t trying to do you any favors. President Bush wants to invade your privacy. According to an article in yesterday’s New York Daily News, Bush gave himself permission to open people’s mail without a warrant in “emergency situations”.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Most of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act deals with mundane reform measures. But it also explicitly reinforced protections of first-class mail from searches without a court’s approval.Yet in his statement Bush said he will “construe” an exception, “which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection in a manner consistent … with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances.”
Bush cited as examples the need to “protect human life and safety against hazardous materials and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection.”
Via / The New York Daily News
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